Northern Ireland Team Travels to the Stoke Mandeville Games

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Northern Ireland Team Travels to the Stoke Mandeville Games

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Location

Aldergrove Airport

Year

1965

Date

Production 15/06/1965

Length

05min 58sec

Audio

mute, sound

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

Paraplegic athletes are practising prior to travelling to England to take part at games at Stoke Mandeville. Charlie Witherspoon talks to some of the competitors; Hugh Gregory, Philip McMahon and John Hughes. Mrs Izzard is the secretary of the Paraplegic team and she’s competing in loads of events. 

Notes

The International Stoke Mandeville Games were a preclude to the Paralympics. Competitors from all over the world met to contest a vast array of sports. The Games were originally held in 1948 by neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who organized a sporting competition involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital rehabilitation facility in Aylesbury, England, taking place concurrently with the first post-war Summer Olympics in London.  

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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